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As men, when they would confirm their promise or threatening to do any thing, add an oath to it, so doth God, who, having no greater to swear by, swears by himself, Jer_44:26. That which God would here confirm was his threatening against Edom, expressed under the notion of
Bozrah, ( a part for the whole,) Bozrah being its principal city, Isa_63:1, as well as a city of Moab (as we found in the foregoing chapter); and that which he threatens it with was not being a reproach, a waste, and a curse for a time, but for ever.